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So mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history

Ordinary human laws are the means
however imperfect
by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

If there were no God the Father, there could be no brotherhood of man.

Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.